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Post-Flarf Discussion by Sandra Simonds
Posted Aug 17, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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How can iambic pentameter be anti democratic? super curiouso
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
Knowing Cal, a little bit of both.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Interview With the Editors of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Interview With the Editors of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion by Sandra Simonds
A few years ago Cal Bedient and David Lau started publishing the incredible journal, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion. I asked contributor, Joshua Clover, to say a few words about the journal and he told me the journal is one that “recognizes we are in a proto-revolutionary mome...
Of course. Ron's contributions to poetry and thinking about poetry have been invaluable.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
Interesting!I think that all of my examples argue that the sonnet does allow for a lot of variation. BUT then some people would argue that those sonnets are not sonnets--of course I think that those people tend to be reactionary conservatives so....
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
Want to make it clear that *I* don't think the sonnet is a fascist form. Rather, I think the idea of calling any form fascist is an interesting one and I hope that WCW did in fact say it, just because it's an interesting argument.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
Thanks, Jilly.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
hmmmm....maybe Diane is our key! Thank you.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
but! I am sympathetic to Williams's statement (if he did in fact say it cause no one seems to know)since one of the ways to be new or "modern" is to break free from old forms, right? Pound would have never said this about the sonnet. Some of my twitter friends did dig up an interesting endorsement of the sonnet from Williams in regard to the poetry of Merrill Moore (who the hell is that?)...apparently a psychiatrist who wrote like 30 million sonnets.
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
Interview With the Editors of Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion by Sandra Simonds
Posted Aug 16, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Yes, but why stop there? A 500,000 line poem could be turned into 35,784.83345 SONNETS. Why not turn all LONG poems into manageable 14 line nuggets of JOY?
Commented Aug 16, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
Yeah some has got to know where the fascist thing came from. Help us.
I love Berrigan's sonnets but left him out because he gets sooooo much time and space whenever the sonnet comes up. Also interesting is how Dickinson and Whitman basically had no use for the sonnet while their contemporaries wrote so many of them (a lot of horrible ones, I should add). Check out "The Baby Sorceress" for example! http://www.sonnets.org/higginson.htm
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
I guess it would be worse if you had a 500 line poem and someone said that you should turn it into a sonnet.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
I know but don't you think it's catchy phrase--"a fascist form"? I want to say it over and over!
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Picture: Steve McCaffery, the structure of the sonnet I. Is the Sonnet a Fascist Form? Somewhere, supposedly, William Carlos Williams calls the sonnet “a Fascist form.” Can someone tell me if this is true? I asked a number of poet friends, lo...
I know what you mean, to some extent. I feel very nervous every time I push the "publish" button on here. I think it gets easier the more you do it though. Maybe? Also, trying not to obsess over the idea of failure. Like what you say doesn't need to be perfect? I think that this way of thinking takes practice. I definitely need to work on it. Thanks for your honesty.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
Leslie,
I agree that there's a time issue with women who are raising children. (baby is crying right now in fact. Do I finish writing this reply or do I respond here?) All of these little choices pile up on a daily basis. Adrienne Rich is so good on this subject. Criticism takes such a sustained effort in terms of time (at least for me) that it's much easier to just not do it. Poetry, I can write much more quickly.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
Awesome poet too. Everyone, check out Lorraine's poetry too.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
Thanks! Looking forward to reading with you in the fall.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
A similar situation the National Poetry Foundation's conference in Maine that I attended four years ago. Great conference but I lamented the fact that the conversations were dominated by men. (Also, seemed that there were wayyyy more men than women). Hope that changed this year. I really want to attend the next one (4 years from now) partially to see if this dynamic has at all changed.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
I also like to interact with my friends who share articles etc on Twitter. Sometimes the interaction includes the original author, but usually never does.
Commented Aug 15, 2012 on Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable) at The Best American Poetry
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to the fact that more men are being published than women. Because my sense is that there’s also a lack of women writing about poetry, I wanted to explore this topic in more detail with a number of women critics I admire. The following is the lively roun...
Shouldn't The Sonnet? by Sandra Simonds
Posted Aug 15, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you, JSA Lowe. One of my professors, David Kirby, taught a class called the "unworkshop" which was really fun. We basically wrote ANYTHING that wasn't poetry (reviews, complied a personal anthology etc).
Commented Aug 14, 2012 on Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds
On July 9th at around 9pm, I gave birth to my second child, Charlotte, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, around 6pm, I was already eight centimeters dilated. For those of you who don’t know much about childbirth, that’s pretty far along. The birth itself wen...
Women Who Write Poetry Criticism (Roundtable)
Posted Aug 14, 2012 at The Best American Poetry
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Thank you. xoxo
Commented Aug 13, 2012 on Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds
On July 9th at around 9pm, I gave birth to my second child, Charlotte, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, around 6pm, I was already eight centimeters dilated. For those of you who don’t know much about childbirth, that’s pretty far along. The birth itself wen...
Thanks Forrest :) Hope that you are doing well.
Commented Aug 13, 2012 on Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds at The Best American Poetry
Notes on the Birth of My Daughter (& Poetry) by Sandra Simonds
On July 9th at around 9pm, I gave birth to my second child, Charlotte, at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. By the time I got to the hospital, around 6pm, I was already eight centimeters dilated. For those of you who don’t know much about childbirth, that’s pretty far along. The birth itself wen...
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